setting expiration date changes primary UID (was: Re: GnuPG race causes misordered uids?

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:36:38AM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:59:25AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> 
> > Better make sure the primary flag has been set.  A warning should be
> > sufficient.
> 
> You're right.  I was thinking about the case where all the self-sigs
> get updated at once (e.g. "expire").  It would be possible to cheat a
> bit there and just timestamp the primary one second earlier.  However,
> this problem exists with "setpref" as well, and that may only apply to
> one uid.  A mess.
> 
> I'll add a warning.

Anyone have any suggestions for the warning text?  I've got:

  "WARNING: no user ID has been marked as primary.  This command may
  cause a different user ID to become the assumed primary."

David
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